The Francis Bacon triptych that recently sold for a record-breaking amount at auction will go on public display at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon starting Saturday. But the identity of the buyer who shelled out $142.4 million for the work remains a mystery. "Three Studies of Lucian Freud," created in 1969, was sold as part of a Christie's auction in New York in November. The $142.4 million paid for the piece represents a record amount for a work of art sold at auction, breaking the previous record held by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" of $119.9 million in 2012.

Re "For Some Britons, Portrait of the Queen Is Not a Pretty Picture" (Dec. 22), about the new Lucian Freud portrait of Queen Elizabeth II: Why is anybody in the least bit surprised? All of Freud's portrait subjects end up looking like cadavers in a morgue. To describe his portraits as being "brutally honest" is being far too kind; there is something terribly misanthropic and misogynistic about his portrait work that is very unpleasant to look at. Even beautiful people look ghastly after he has attacked them.

Clement Freud, 84, a grandson of Sigmund Freud who became a well-known writer, politician and urbane regular on British radio, died Wednesday at his home in London, his family said. The cause of death was not announced. Freud was best known from his three decades appearing on the BBC game show "Just a Minute," in which panelists compete to see who can talk the longest without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

From the fan-dancing women wearing python costumes to the multimedia display that projected David Hockney's image around the walls, MOCA's gala celebrating the opening of the Lucian Freud retrospective was -- to say the least -- memorable. It started humbly enough early Friday night, with a cocktail reception at the museum on South Grand Avenue downtown.

Joan Collins is portrayed lying enticingly on a sofa, Dominick Dunne writing intensely in one of his little green notebooks, Billy Wilder staring forth with owlish authority. As captured in oil on canvas by Sacha Newley, Hollywood's rich, famous and intriguing were on display along with other portraits by the young British artist at a cocktail reception opening his first American show at the Chateau Marmont on Thursday night.

T.S. Eliot never lived to see the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical "Cats," based on Eliot's collection of poems "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. " But Eliot's second wife and widow, Valerie, did live long enough to profit from the musical, amassing a sizable fortune from the royalties, which she used at least in part to buy art. On Wednesday, Valerie Eliot's art collection was auctioned off for approximately $12.9 million, including buyers' premium, at a Christie's auction in London.

Francis Bacon's portrait of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud fetched $37 million at a London auction Thursday. Auctioneer Sotheby's said that the triptych, "Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud," was bought a bidder who wished to remain anonymous. The crimson-toned artwork captures a distorted vision of Freud, who like Bacon was one of postwar Britain's leading artists. ?Associated Press Singlehood in sight for Sheen Charlie Sheen can go back to being single, but he'll have to wait a few months before it's official, a judge ruled Thursday.

Unlike David Hockney, Lucian Freud is inaccessible. He rarely grants interviews, and has chosen an emissary to speak for him. William Feaver is James Boswell to Freud's Samuel Johnson, Morris Engelberg to his Joe DiMaggio. Sitting in his home office in Clapham, a less fashionable area miles from Freud's studio, Feaver is surrounded by the painter's life. His desk is strewn with upcoming projects, assorted correspondence and art catalogs. A whippet related to Freud's Pluto sleeps in the corner.

FASHION Week started here on Monday with more talk about the models than the clothes they were wearing. Debate is raging over whether reed-thin models should be banned from the runways (as they were in Madrid last week) because they might encourage eating disorders.